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How Sabu Orchestrated the Hack of FBI Contractor ManTech
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes Weeks after he started working quietly as an FBI informant, Hector Xavier Monsegur, known by his online alias "Sabu," led a cyber attack against one of the bureau's very own IT contractors. In July 2011, at Monsegur's urging, members of AntiSec, an offshoot of the hacking collective Anonymous, took advantage of compromised log-in credentials belonging to a contractor with a top secret security clearance employed at the time by ManTech International.
According to chat logs recorded by Monsegur at the behest of the FBI and obtained by Motherboard, the informant directed hackers to pilfer as much data as possible from ManTech's servers as investigators stood by. Stolen data was published as the third installment of AntiSec's ... collection of leaks intended to embarrass the same federal agency that presided over the hack and others.
According to chat logs recorded by Monsegur at the behest of the FBI and obtained by Motherboard, the informant directed hackers to pilfer as much data as possible from ManTech's servers as investigators stood by. Stolen data was published as the third installment of AntiSec's ... collection of leaks intended to embarrass the same federal agency that presided over the hack and others.
I guess someone at the FBI was not happy with ManTech? Did ManTech know about the hacks ahead of time? There's so much weird with this story.
I read the internet for the articles.
Several of Anonymous' "hacks" looked a lot like they were stepping into honey pots.
You are working under the impression that dealing with people works smoothly like a software program, and there exists a fully working solution. Real life is about finding the path where the benefits are better then the costs.
Your example of the informant who rats out all his enemies and competition, while means he is still scum causing problems, it does prevent the others from doing so.
But what is even as common is the low level criminal, who isn't actually trying to be a bad person, but just to make a living because he doesn't know of an other way. Getting paid to rat out other criminals, including much higher level ones, can give him money to survive the next week and avoid crime until he needs the money again.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
CONSPIRACY THEORY! TINFOIL! TINFOIL!
Now, exactly when did you stop lying to us? I want to know when I can begin my trust.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
So if agents were involved in the plannning, then this hack was a de-facto FBI operation. All of the hackers involved should be paid, not prosecuted; or the FBI agents should ALSO be prosecuted.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
I still think old Hector stands an outside shot of eclipsing Benedict Arnold in the history books (assuming we will still be allowed truthful books in the near future).
A few cherry picked lines from a chat log and it really looks like Sabu is the mastermind behind everything... or not. Even with this garbage that's being presented out of context it looks like he's just doing what people do on chatters, answering questions and talking crap.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Stop trusting, geeze.
Even in the modern world, you're still asking who to trust? Stop trusting, and STOP ASKING . The answer is "never" and it will always be "never." If you want to lie to yourself, you can start that wherever you can; you don't even have to trust yourself for that. ;)
I think you can't call it tinfoil, when the facts confirm the "conspiracy".
The FBI *did* order an attack on an FBI contractor. That fact has been established. That by definition, is a false flag.
Unless by "tinfoil" you mean talking about hard truths that do not portray the US government or its agencies in a flattering light.
>Getting paid to rat out other criminals, including much higher level ones, can give him money to survive the next week and avoid crime until he needs the money again.
you make it sounds like criminals hate committing crimes, and won't see it as extra money.
Conversely, it lets the worst of the worst walk, and good people who get caught up in bad situations thrown in jail.
This is where the FBI is trying to flush your respect for anti-sec.
expect infiltrators and turncoats in every org that opposses the government on any level. That shouldn't diminish your respect for what they do, or the org as a whole.
Hector didn't run to the cops. They caught him on some other beef, after he posted some pics online, and then they squeezed him until he cracked.
'Zactly.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
in addition, I am wonder if extreme punishments, and the system of paid informants is little nothing more than a ploy by the FBI to making recruiting of black bag job squads easier.
because you don't have bona fide FBI agents do the dirty work. Just in case things go south, and someone needs to take the blame having an outside team really helps.
You also need a bad guy, because the FBI's funding is controlled by congress, and often debated by the public. Creating a need for enforcement and scaring the shits out of people is a great way to do that.
It also came out that the FBI was doing most of the work in so many "terrorist" cases they busted. In fact, most of the terrorists had to be either talked, threatened or bribed into comitting terrorism, so they FBI could have a dog and pony show.
The FBI has admitted they don't have the skills or resources to go after the real bad guys. So they make something up to present to congress.
If you think the "war on terror" is bad. The drug war is far larger, far more peverse, and far less talked about in its scope.
So you're telling me I shouldn't trust anybody, but why should I trust you eh?
Nice try buddy, I'm going to be trusting everyone from now on.